Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-15 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:44:26 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > Holger Hoffstaette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] >> Maybe turning off sendfile or NAPI just lead to random success - so far >> it really looks like tso on the r8169 is the common cause. > > TSO on the r8169

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-15 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:19:43 +0100, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > I have now gone back to enable TSO since vsftp with sendfile really seems > to be the only app that causes this. I have simply set it to > use_sendfile=NO and no corruption occurs at all; the machine is stable and > f

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-12 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:44:26 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > Holger Hoffstaette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] >> Maybe turning off sendfile or NAPI just lead to random success - so far >> it really looks like tso on the r8169 is the common cause. > > TSO on the r8169

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-06 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
(removing .kernel as it seems to concern netdev only) On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:13:00 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : >> Holger Hoffstaette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] >> > Should I file this in bugzilla? >> >> Yes.

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-06 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:54:29 +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > Holger Hoffstaette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] >> Should I file this in bugzilla? > > Yes. Thanks for responding - will do. I verified with 2.6.24-rc4 (same bug) and have some new information about this. Despit

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-02 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:00:03 +0100, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:26:54 -0800, Rick Jones wrote: > >> Could the corruption be seen in a tcpdump trace prior to transmission >> (ie taken on the sender) or was it only seen after the data passed out >>

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-12-02 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:26:54 -0800, Rick Jones wrote: > Could the corruption be seen in a tcpdump trace prior to transmission (ie > taken on the sender) or was it only seen after the data passed out the > NIC? I did the following: 1) turn on tso on the server's r8169: ethtool --offload eth0 tso

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-11-30 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
Btw, the r8169 has NAPI enabled. kernel config: http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/dist/kernel-config-x86-2.6.23.9 dmesg: http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/dist/dmesg lspci -vv: http://hoho.dyndns.org/~holger/dist/lspci thanks Holger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netde

Re: Reproducible data corruption with sendfile+vsftp - splice regression?

2007-11-30 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:07:53 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: > CC to netdev, it might concern network guys It is indeed related to network/r8169, more below. > Could you try with a test file containing unique patterns ? Same result, here is new information. - contrary to my first posting, the corru